The Dillon tribune., 1887-09-23
GLEANINGs FROM THE ROCKIES.
Events Transpiring in Our Sister States
and Territories.

Boise City's artesian we'll is down lao
feet.
Tramps burned sixty feet OF the trestle
work of the railroad at Arno, Gala, or the
night Of the 10Th.
The Eagle Rock, Idaho, public schools
have started up with eighty-five pupils in
The Cheyenne Leader reports tina: herd
Of two hundred buffalo has been found in
the Big Horn mountains in Wyoming.
Hyrum Lusk, one Of the most noted
stage men in the West, now has the stage
contract between Malad and Collinston,
Utah.
An electric railway is to be built from
Santa Barbara through Montecito Val.
ley in California, distance Of about ten
miles.
A Chicago capitalist offers to erect six
story $7so,ooo hotel at Portland, Oregon,
II that city will give him a bonus Of
$e5oooo.
The Union Pacific has effected an agree.
ment with the Northern Pacific for divi.
sion Of business in Oregon and Washing.
ton Territory.
Rains have extended throughout the 81.
ezra Madres in the State of Sonora. More
water has fallen there this year than the
combined precipitation Of six years.
The Caldwell Qdaho) Fair Association
will hold is first annual fair Sep. g, 80, and
Oct. 1. The Caldwell Jockey Club will
hold its races at the same time.
The militia Of Nevada have refused to
take the oath prescribed by the last Legis.
lature, and the courts have rul. d that they
can not draw their money until they take
the oath.
HALEY Intev.Idaho: The assessment for
Alturas county is complete, and foots up
$3,7o5,31S.So, yielding revenue Of over
$111,ooo, which is pretty good income
for the year 1887.
A ten.year old girl was run over and kill
ed by the cars at Pocatello last week. She
was peddling milk to the passengers Of a
train and was crawling under some freigh,
cars when the accident occurred.
Two unsuccessful attempts have beer
made to assassina,e boy at Baker City
| Oregon. The boy was a witness against I
man charged with theft, and the attempts
to kill him have excited the people.
'The wheat crop Of 1851" says the Pres
ident of the Portland, Oregon, Board o
Trade, "is the largest ever known, the sur
plus for export being fully 10000 tons, y
which 100000 tons are from the Willamette
Valley and 10000 tons are from the in
land empire
]. L. Benham attempted to cross tn
track Of the Northern Pacific at st. Hele
ma, Oregon, on the l3th, with team. Il
was struck by the locomotive, the wago
demolished and Benham instantly killee
Before the train could be stopped he wa
carried over two hundred yards on the p
lot.
Cheyenne (Wyo) San, 14th: The Roc
Springs Coal Company, which was latei
organized with capital Of 100000, an
H. ]. Balch, ]. W. Donnellan, Of Lara'ni
City, P. J. Quealey, Of Carbon, as trustee
and incorporates, are making arrange
nents to engage actively in the coal bus
ness, at Rock Springs, where the compan
has one of the finest mines in Washingto
Territory.
The Boise Idaho) Democrat says {; ma
named Venable killed lynx with roc
near John Buckley's ranch, five miles fro,
Boise. He was brought face to face with tn
brute in broad day vlight,when he picked u
rock and let fly hitting it in the heac.
was the lynx fer whose scalp reward {
$40 had been offered for wears by DR.. Ste
phens, and was the largest ever killed
that section of Idaho.
Bellevue Idaho) Xr,uld, 18th: Author
itative news reaches us OF the sale OF tn
Pacific tunnel, Lookout Mountain, an
. commonly known as the tunnel bein
worked by John Walker. The company
composed of capitalists from Illinois an
Missouri who have Incorporated under tn
; name of the Pacific Gold and Silver Mir
| ing Company, under the laws of the Stat
| of Illinois. The former owners will re;
lize $4,000 from the sale, to be paid in ir
stallments.
Idaho Recorder: The indians who liv
on the reservation just above Fort Leml
are making great Improvements on the
, farms this year, while others are taking II